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 You have been given a genetic trait to investigate.  First
make a directory in your account for this trait.  
	The best method to get to OMIM is this.   
You can use the world wide web to get there.
Enter "lynx http://clone.concordia.ca/home.home.html".  Do not
use the quotes.  Now put the pointer on the highlighted part
of nih and push the enter or carriage return key. At nih select
OMIM. Note that you could also use netscape if you have it
available. You must use OMIN to get the material for your
presentation, and the material you get must be recent.  Textbook
material is not acceptable for this presentation.
	Once you have decided which articles you need, try the
following locations.
1. telnet mercury (log in as clues)  This is our library.
2. tn3270 mvs.mcgill.ca  The system is muse. There are all 
sorts of things that you can get from the science and health library.
That is in the round building.  According to our librarians,  as a 
concordia undergrad you are allowed to use the McGill libraries, 
but you do not have borrowing priviledges.  In addition you will
probably not be allowed to use their libraries during the evening
and the weekends, particularly late in the semester.  Hence, If you
do go, have a pocket full of change for the copying machines or a
mcgill debit card and it is to you advantage to go early and 
on a week day.  Note that you will be pleased to find that you do not 
have to look up call letters. The periodicals are filed alphabetically.
If you want some other information try the command libtel.  Libtel
is a series of scripts which will allow you to access the online catalogues
of the libraries of the world.
Note that there are commercial services that will mail you an article
for a price. This is sort of a last resort.  Usually, you can get it
locally with a trip up the hill. One such commercial service is carl.org.

Do not try to present all the material that you will find.  Pick and
organize so that you have a presentation that gives the major information
about the topic within the time period. Note that this is not a
presentation from textbooks of genetics, but a presentation from
recent material in the literature.

Silly Rules Invented to Prevent Disasters, after Previous Disasters.
	The last step is planning your presentation so that you can
give it to the class. Note that you will not be allowed to present your
presentation unless you have a one page hand out for the class that
sumarizes your talk in your own words, and gives several of your 
important references.  Your presentation should be about 25 minutes 
long.  If you talk more than 30 minutes you will be stopped.  You may 
use any visual aids that you can find, but you must  prepare for that 
yourself.  That means getting any equipment that you
use from the A. V. window, setting it up and making transparancies if
you use them.  Hint-- Do not try to learn to use the equipment at the
start of your presentation.  Find out how it works before and get it
ready.

NOTE NOTE NOTE!  Now and then something happens to people so that you
cannot do your presentation on the date scheduled.  If this happens to
you, first you must notify me by e-mail before the class so that the
class does not waste its time waiting around for you to show up.  After
the date that you miss a presentation, you must be prepared to give it
at any subsequent session of the class in which there is time.  If there
is no time, there are some open spaces at the last session.  Also note
however that you are allowed one chicken out  on a first talk for the
course without penalty, but no excuse for not presenting a second talk.
This course is over registered.  Hence there is little time for alternate
scheduling.  
	There might make a possible exception if you do something
exceptional such as break both legs or catch some contagious disease
that the rest of us do not want, but in general you must give your
presentation to get a grade.  The requirement is that everyone speaks
before the audience twice.
	  Some people may wish to investigate a particular trait
for personal reasons.  If you wish to do this discuss it with me.  It
will be an acceptable substitution if no one else has it and there is
sufficient material that is known about it.	
	Caution!  This is a genetics course.  Symptoms of the condition
that you are studying might be interesting in passing.  Do not devote
more than 5% of your talk to symptoms and treatment.  The rest must
be genetics.  Note that molecular biology can and should be used but it
must be a direct consequence of the genetics. Treatments that involve
genetic engineering to cure the condition by changing heredity are
an exception. 
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	beckman@clone.concordia.ca
	Carolyn Beckman
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